SEOUL, July 17 (Yonhap) -- Graduates of North Korea's top university named after the communist country's founder Kim Il-sung dominate top government and party posts under the leadership of new leader Kim Jong-un, a government report in Seoul showed Tuesday.

About 35.5 percent of key North Korean government and Workers' Party figures are alumni of Kim Il-sung University while the army-oriented Kim Il-sung Military University is the alma mater for 17.7 percent of them, according to the report by the Unification Ministry, which handles inter-Korean issues.